I didn’t even realize how long I’d been using Apollo until all this stuff happened. It’s been the only way I’ve used Reddit for five years. Not having access to it anymore really hurts. Christian did such a phenomenal job of making Apollo feel incredibly intuitive and customizable without feeling overly cluttered. I’m really going to miss spending my time lurking over there.

Have you tried wefwef? It’s pretty much Apollo for lemmy

Same here, and then I found Memmy for Lemmy and it’s like I just moved to another state that’s just like home

RiP.

I so dearly miss having multiple columns on the browsing page, so I can feel less like a Facebook user. Connect has been treating me well though and feels very familiar.

They bought it first and then killed it so that they could present their own BS “official” app.

The 4 years of reddit gold for free was pretty nice. Didn’t ever motivate me to spend a dime on gold myself after it expired, but it made reddit slightly more bearable.

Seconding this.

I still have it installed on my work phone.

I went Alien Blue > Antenna > Narwhal. I think the latter 2 were similar to the original AB. Apollo just felt too cluttered and “extra” to me. I just wanted a minimalist app.

Yeah it’s been many years but I remember trying the official reddit app and it simply didnt work. I installed rif and it was perfect. I used rif for many years. Countless hours just scrolling my carefully curated subs.

So sad. When I launched it and it gave me an error that day the api changes kicked in, it felt like a friend just died.

Snif.

I think the fediverse might just be ok tho. These networks taking off right now are thanks to spez. Lol.

Rif

I think that memmy is showing a lot of progress, but I’ve been getting better search results from mlem, so I’m using both right now. I think a couple more might be out for iOS right now (just grabbed liftoff).

I’m another one of those Alien Blue -> Apollo -> gtfo users. I never would have even signed up for reddit if it wasn’t for third party apps because their UI was terrible in every iteration and implementation, and I was a regular user for over ten years.